Alas! LinuxCon has begun and I'm stuck here, up to my-- well... never you mind! I'm just not there this year. However, conventions about opensource things are increasingly friendly to virtual participation, so maybe I'll be able to look in a little. Today...

I read an interesting article by Art Seavey called " Planning ahead for a new breed of 'public' spaces ." It discusses the concept of government computing in contrast to public spaces, such as park land, city hall and other physical places that are...

I'm off for two weeks on a family vacation and won't be podcasting, but there WILL be some podcast content to look forward to. In particular, Andy Glover 's new series featuring conversations with industry luminaries on topics ranging from Clojure to open...

Just a quick one today: One of the problems that open source software has in gaining traction is that it's not plastered through magazines, billboards and television commercials. Be snide about it if you want, but most open source projects are about getting...

If you are a Firefox user, you may have heard about the vulnerability
discovered which could allow malicious web sites to steal passwords that
you have stored in your password safe. You didn't know that? It could
suck. I don't have the details, but...

I was catching up on my slashdot articles and found an interesting
note about a major computer manufacturer (hint: you'll find out who
it is if you follow the links) who has been dancing in and out of the closet issue about
supporting Linux as a viable...

A chat with IBM Cloud Computing evangelist Doug Tidwell who is at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon this week. Doug shares thoughts from the week, like "where are the mainframe maintainers for tomorrow coming from?" And check out his...

I was poking around on some information about OpenSim for an author and stumbled across a video about using a Wii remote to create a low-cost Multi-touch Whiteboard . Wow! I admit that I'd never given a whole lot of thought about how the Wii remote works. ...

A very cool article in Technology Review ( Build Your Own Cellular Network ) gives the rundown on how you can use open-source to build a cell network. According to the article, "...an
open-source project called OpenBTS is proving that almost anyone...

Geoffrey McCaleb, Nsyght 's Mad Scientist, talks about beginning with a desire to solve a problem of search relevancy and ending up with a new brand and approach to social network aggregation. Todd Watson joins.
LISTEN (13:02)
Transcript Scott Laningham's...

Patrick Meier of Ushahidi.com talks about their free and open source solution, first created for mapping incidents of violence during the 2007 Kenyan elections and now being used in Haiti and Chile to assist with rescue and relief efforts.
LISTEN (16:40)
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Robert Syputa , Senior Strategy Analyst and Partner with Maravedis , and Dirk Nicol, Program Director for Emerging technology at IBM talk about the Cloud Computing Use Case Project . You can get the related source documents for the project HERE . LISTEN...